*SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES+, 12/05/2025*

Mass failure: UTME candidates to sue JAMB over technical glitches

Viral video: Nigerians dare EFCC to arrest Tompolo over alleged Naira abuse

2027: I’ll campaign with Oluremi Tinubu — Patience Jonathan

PDP govs, NWC, others in crucial meeting ahead of NEC meeting

I’m not desperate to return as Rivers gov – Fubara

Lagos council polls: 10 APC women to contest in July

Amokachi urges Osimhen to make EPL Move

Zelensky announces May 15 Russia-Ukraine peace talks in Istanbul

Nigeria, others affected as UK clamps down on care worker visas

Our country a home, not hotel, Badenoch decries UK immigration crisis

FG rescue 78 trafficked victims in Cote D Ivoire

Japa: Many Nigerians are suffering high-level frustration abroad – Immigration lawyer

Tinubu receives lifetime Africa achievement prize in Ghana


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*DID YOU KNOW?*

* Caffeine is the most commonly consumed psychoactive substance globally. It stimulates your central nervous system as well as your muscles, heart, and other parts of your body that help control blood. Caffeine works by blocking adenosine, the neurotransmitter that tells your brain it’s tired.

* In Japan, chefs have to train for over two years in order to qualify to serve pufferfish, a delicacy, which if prepared wrong, can kill the person eating it.
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Tinubu to get Ogoni crude exploration resumption report

Tinubu celebrates business tycoon Eludoyin at 77

South-South commission’s MD not Akpabio’s daughter, says Senate

Speaker Abbas loses mother-in-law

Supreme Court holds valedictory session for late justice Ogwuegbu May 14

Rivers emergency rule: FG taps ex-AGF, 11 SANs as Supreme Court battle looms

Court orders EFCC to return $20,000 seized from acquitted defendant

Court orders FG to release gas flaring data

Troops recover 591,000 litres of stolen products in Niger Delta

NSCDC seals illegal refinery, seizes petroleum products in Anambra

Soldiers arrest two notorious gunrunners in Plateau

Over 80 Army captains begin promotion exam today

NDLEA arrests Iran-bound woman with cocaine in private part, stomach, bag at PH airport

FG moves to unlock N23tn pension funds for national development

FG, states add N57tn to debt in 18 months

FG makes U-turn, endorses Senate security summit

Nigeria’s airports below global standards, FG to upgrade MMIA — Keyamo

FG promises December completion of Akure-Ikere road

LP Crisis: INEC keeps factions in suspense

CBN earns N3.1bn interest on FG’s ways and means

NIMC raises fees for NIN data modification services

NPA refutes multi-billion Naira fraud allegations

‘Nigeria First’ policy will boost local goods patronage – NASENI

FG’s PPP garment factories ready to dress paramilitary nationwide – ICRC

First Lady inaugurates 100-bed mother and child centre in Imo

ASUU slams Nigeria’s institutional weaknesses, corruption in governance

CIBN to hold annual general meeting

Four million cattle, 50,000 lives lost to northern violence – Miyetti Allah

Southern Kaduna professors hail Tinubu, Sani for boosting development

Falana demands probe of alleged diversion of $3.4bn IMF loan

DJs unveils championship with NCC backing

Air Peace jet hits antelope at Asaba airport, NCAA clarifies delays

Enugu Air, CNG buses, transport terminals to take off this month

AGRA, Nestlé, TechnoServe unveil $1m climate-smart agric project

Access Bank rewards customers with over N6.6bn

Dangote tackles marketers, insists on capacity to meet fuel demand

Nigeria, Africa can work if we tackle corruption, rascality in governance – Obi

Saraki chairs PDP govs’ seven-member reconciliation committee

Hajj: Sanwo-Olu promises 1,432 Lagos pilgrims robust welfare package

Bauchi governor inaugurates committee to curb farmer-herder clashes

Governor Sani raises alarm over rising drug abuse among youths in northwest

Aiyedatiwa, Makinde, Bamidele hail Afenifere leader Fasoranti at 99

Oborevwori, Diri bag doctorate degrees at Nigerian Maritime University convocation

Lagos to become year-round tourism destination – Commissioner

A’Ibom advocates N5bn monthly federal allocation to boost tourism

Ekiti warns contractors against project delay

Joining Army not death sentence, LASG tells youths

LASBCA removes Ikeja shanties over security threats

Itsekiri are Yoruba descendants, says Alaafin

Ladoja to chair 2025 world egungun festival

Bello Turji’s threats force residents to flee Sokoto communities

Police arrest 17 over killing of two Bayelsa varsity graduates

Man arrested for defiling 12-year-old girl in Lagos

20-ft container falls, kills two dispatch riders in Lagos

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*TODAY IN HISTORY*

* On this day in 2006, a pipeline explosion in the fishing village of Inagbe Beach, near Lagos, Nigeria, killed over 250 people and displaced 276,000 people. The blast occurred when a truck rammed into a gas processing plant near a vandalized petroleum gas pipeline.

* On this day in 2008, a massive earthquake rocked China. The magnitude 7.9 quake left some 69,000 people dead, 18,000 missing, and 4.8 million homeless. It was the deadliest earthquake in China since 1976 when the Tangshan earthquake killed over 240,000 people.

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*Compiled by Hon. Osuji George osujis@yahoo.com, +234-8122200446*